CONTENTS. 



— A forenoon's sport in the Surjoo — Best months and best 

 flies for mahseer-fishing in the Himalayan rivers — Fishing 

 theories, ........ 21 



CHAPTER IV. 



Delightful climate— Start for Dhuj — " Baloo Mar," the village 

 Nimrod — The gooral, or " Himalayan chamois " — Albino 

 gooral — A strange coincidence — Up Dhuj — Sunrise over the 

 snowy range — Game in sight — " Buck fever " and its usual re- 

 sult — Kill a buck — Kalleege pheasants — Wild pigs — The cheer 

 pheasant — Singular effect of morning mist— Securing a trouble- 

 some specimen — A bold intruder — The koklass pheasant and 

 the pewra partridge — A chance shot in the dim moonlight — 

 Baloo ! — Almost too close to be pleasant — The surrow — A 

 drive for jurrow — Village curs — Wild dogs — A cruel lesson, . 33 



CHAPTER V. 



" dirty " way of killing jurrow — An artificial salt-lick — Old 

 Jeetoo — Watch for a leopard — We try a ruse — An airy night's 

 lodging — An exciting moment — Bad luck — Jeetoo tries to pro- 

 pitiate the mountain spirit — A splendid stag — Tracking — 

 Shooting at night — A sight for night-work — A carrion-eating 

 tiger — We watch for him — A man-eating leopard — A hunt after 

 a feline demon, ....... 48 



CHAPTER VI. 



Start for the higher ranges — The Chipla mountain — The tahr — Its 

 flesh and bones used as medicine — An enormous wild cat — 

 " Peepsa " flies — Agriculture and agriculturists on the higher 

 ranges — My first day's sport on the Chipla — A picturesque 

 bivouac — Exorcising an evil spirit — A long and weary climb 

 — Beautiful rhododendrons — Horned argus-pheasant — We try 

 a stalk for pork — An uncomfortable bed, and the way we 

 improved it — Moonal pheasants — Bad ground — An awkward 

 climb — Two dangerous experiments — Primitive tobacco-pipes 

 — Light and shade effects on the mountains — The great 

 bearded vulture — The musk-deer and its scent-bag — A snow- 

 storm — The valley of the Kallee or Sarda, . . .02 



